Mick Hartley

From the Telegraph:

Thousands of prisoners are believed to be stuck in hidden underground cells in Bashar al-Assad’s most notorious prison, according to survivors.

The White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence group, said it had deployed five “specialised emergency teams” to Saydnaya prison in Damascus following the reports.

Saydnaya, once described by Amnesty as a “human slaughterhouse”, was liberated after the Islamist-led opposition forces entered the capital after their lightning offensive across Syria.

The Damascus Countryside Governorate is appealing to former regime soldiers and prison workers to give rebel forces the electronic codes to free “more than 100,000” detainees who can be seen on CCTV. Their claim could not be independently verified.

Tens of thousands of prisoners have now been freed from the regime’s prisons across the country, where human rights groups said torture and mass hangings were carried out.

More than 100,000 detainees! Well, it's believable. The true depravity of the Assad regime is about to be exposed.

Any chance of the International Criminal Court getting involved? I know it's not Israel, but still….